"Ghost" BA flights
Just a guess (I am not employed by BA and have no knowledge of their operations) - when preparing their C/C roster, BA discovered that they were a few bods short. So they offload all the pax for half a dozen flights onto alternatives, and operate the affected flights with cargo only. So all pax get to where they want to go, the aircraft are still operated with a payload (NOT empty as ITV News would have us believe), and British journalism reaches a new low.....